[Xastir-dev] args to data_add()

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> Perhaps it would be better to hack up a generic 'fake tnc' program
> that xastir can connect to as if it were an APRS Internet Server?

I considered this for plotting 802.11 access points, but how can you do
this without stealing from the set of symbols used for APRS?

That is to say, I want to use this for APRS and for other things.

> That little program could read FlightGear's position reports, then
> generate artificial APRS packets for xastir to read through a TCP
> connection. Xastir could then do real-time updates rather than have to
> be told to read a log file.

No argument as to the rest of it, this is the right way to go.